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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."
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"I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly."
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"I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'."
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"I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials."
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"I started doing stand-up in college."
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"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."
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"I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think."
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"One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything."
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"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
College


"Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University."
War


"That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent."
Science


"My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director."
Friendship


"And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists."
Science


"I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University."
Education


"My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938."
Education


"After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958."
War


"It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation."
Public


"The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist."
Behavior
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